Add Java-Objective-C-Bridge to JNA core.

[shannah]

I am the developer of the Java-Objective-C-Bridge project which uses jna at its core. I have had a couple of requests to contribute it to the core of JNA. I am willing to contribute this to the JNA project.

Is this something that you would like to have in JNA? If so, can you advise the best steps for me to take to contribute it - incl. where it best fits into the file structure?

Steve

[dblock]

I think that it could definitely be part of JNA, placed into contrib and added to the distribution. However, JNA is pretty big, there're tons of problems around building and testing it, and if anything maybe needs to be split into parts.

[rednoah]

@shannah Me and @dbwiddis were looking into merging your excellent Java-Objective-C-Bridge into jna and jna-platform (as a paid project) and before we do anything in this regard we would like your express permission to do so, since your code is not currently under the LGPL.

[shannah]

@rednoah Yes you have my permission. The license I set was Apache 2.0. Is that not compatible with LGPL in this regard?

[dbwiddis]

Apache 2.0 is not compatible with GPL 2, so we provide that alternative license to permit GPL2 software to use JNA.